Scozzaro hasn't much online footprint and doesn't seem to have been on our lists (at least, not without an alias). When our children are 70, we will have alarms built into the vehicle that will go off if you are going the wrong way down a major highway. I drove 5 miles up the wrong direction on the Taconic parkway in NY State in 1975 before I started to question why the center line in the highway was always dotted. I always wonder what the 15 cars we drove passed must have thought, and what would have happened if they had not moved to the passing lane to get by us as we wizzed past at 70mph. It was nighttime and we had returned to the highway from the rest area where we..... it was the mid 70s. Scozzaro's van looks KIA. ============ BEGIN QUOTE ============ Three people were seriously hurt and two others suffered minor injuries in a multivehicle collision Friday on Highway 101 involving a wrong-way driver, according to the <http://www.chp.ca.gov/>California Highway Patrol. The wreck, caused by an allegedly drunken driver, occurred shortly after 6 a.m. on the northbound freeway between the Pueblo Street offramp and the Junipero Street pedestrian overcrossing, the CHP said. Five vehicles were involved in the collision, including the Volkswagen Vanagon that was driving south in the northbound lanes. The wrong-way driver, identified as Joseph A. Scozzaro, 70, of Santa Barbara, encountered Yesenia G. Vidal, 23, of Goleta, as she was entering the freeway from the Mission Street onramp in her Nissan Altima, the CHP said. Vidal swerved to the right to avoid a collision with Scozzaro, but crashed into the right guardrail. Seconds later, Scozzaro smashed head-on into an Acura Integra driven by David V. Nguyen, 22, of Garden Grove, the CHP said. The darkened wreckage of the three vehicles came to rest blocking most of the freeway, the CHP said, and was struck by a Chevy Silverado driven by Wayne R. Mantooth, 48, of Norwalk. The final collision occurred when a Ford F-150 driven by Sergio M. Figueroa, 53, of Santa Barbara, struck the disabled vehicles, the CHP said. Three of the drivers had to be extricated from their vehicles by firefighters, an extended process that was prioritized based on the severity of their injuries, <http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/government/departments/fire/>Santa Barbara fire Capt. Gary Pitney said. The CHP said Scozzaro was first reported driving the wrong way near the Las Positas Road exit. |
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